Web Essay: Ignore hair-trigger liberal response

3:29 PM,
Jan. 7, 2013

A Marlboro Township, N.J., police officer directs school buses out of the Delfino Central Elementary School parking lot at the end of the school day on Jan. 2. Officers were stationed in the school for the entire duration of the school day in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Conn.

Written by

CHAS BELFIELD
Guest Essayist

Hours after the Newtown shooting, every liberal in America began screaming at the top of their lungs how guns are the root of all evil in America and by disarming the population, a tragedy like this will never happen again. That's a lot like saying canceling Brock the Port will stop all the off campus drinking that occurs: Neither action will produce the desired result.

I'm the owner of a firearm, and I believe something needs to be done. But what most people are asking for will actually make the problem worse. Let's look beyond weapons and see what really enabled the Newtown shooting.